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South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
cordially invite you to a discussion of a recent publication:
From Competition At Home to Competing Abroad:
A Case Study of India?s Horticulture
Aaditya Mattoo, Deepak Mishra, and Ashish Narain
A new World Bank and OUP report examines the paradox that while
India is a large, low cost agricultural producer, its share in
global agriculture exports is minuscule. India produces nearly 11
per cent of all the world?s vegetables and 15 per cent of all
fruits, yet its share in global exports of vegetables is only 1.7
per cent and in fruits a meager 0.5 per cent. Based on an integrated
analysis of the sector?from farm to market?on the basis of primary
surveys of farmers, agents, and exporters across fifteen Indian
states, the report lists three major factors that are undermining
India?s potential for reaching supermarkets across the globe: (i)
The high delivery costs of getting agricultural produce from farm to
market; (ii) The existence of a huge gap between the health, safety,
and quality standards required abroad and the weak standards and
assessment mechanisms in India; and (iii) Pernicious forms of trade
protection and a system of special safeguards that is a source of
considerable uncertainty for successful exporters.
Tuesday, May 15 2007
3:00 - 4:30pm
World Bank J Building J1 - 050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
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Chair
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region
Praful Patel, a Ugandan national, is one of the senior corporate
leaders of the World Bank. He is currently the Regional Vice
President of South Asia. Mr. Patel joined the World Bank in 1974
through the Young Professional Program after completing his higher
education from the University of Nairobi in Kenya and later the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. In a career
spanning 29 years, Mr. Patel has provided strategic leadership in
managerial and corporate positions in various parts of the Bank
taking forward the institution?s mission of poverty alleviation in
regions as varied as Africa, East Asia, Latin America and Northern
Africa and the Middle East. In the process, he has covered
different sectors including urban, infrastructure, private sector,
financial sector and macro-economic management. He has also taken
on senior management oversight of complex Bank-supported initiatives
in countries confronting major macro-economic shocks, post-conflict
countries, and countries involving international cross-boundary
undertakings, and piloted in Southern Africa the Bank?s increasing
shift to country dialogue based on knowledge management and support
of local capacity.
Authors
Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, DECRG
Aaditya Mattoo is Lead Economist in the Development Research Group
of the World Bank. He has been leading a World Bank project to help
the Government of India develop a strategy for international trade
reform and negotiations on agriculture and services. He is also
leading a project on international trade in services, specializes in
trade policy analysis and the operation of the WTO, and is helping
enhance policy-making and negotiating capacity in developing
countries. Prior to joining the Bank in 1999, Mr. Mattoo was
Economic Counsellor at the Trade in Services Division, WTO, Geneva.
He also served as Economic Affairs Officer in the Economic Research
and Analysis and Trade Policy Review Divisions of the WTO. Mr.
Mattoo has lectured in economics at the University of Sussex and was
lector at Churchill College, Cambridge University. Mr. Mattoo is an
Indian national and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from King?s College,
University of Cambridge, and an M.Phil in Economics from St. Edmund
Hall, University of Oxford.
Deepak Mishra
Senior Economist, South Asia PREM
Deepak Mishra is Senior Economist in the Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management Unit in the South Asia region of the World Bank.
He has been leading a World Bank project to help the Government of
India to develop an informed strategy for reform and negotiations in
trade in services and agriculture. He also specializes in
sub-national issues?as the task manager of policy-based budget
support operations to Andhra Pradesh and Bihar and as one of the
leading authors of sub-national economic reports on Andhra Pradesh,
Punjab and Sindh (Pakistan). Prior to joining the Bank, he worked
for the Federal Reserve Board and Tata Motors in various capacities.
Mr. Mishra is an Indian national and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from
University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.A. in Economics from
Delhi School of Economics
Discussant
Will Martin
Lead Economist, DECRG
Will Martin specializes in analysis of trade policy reforms in
developing countries, with an emphasis on reforms related to the
WTO, and a regional focus on East and South Asia. He has written
extensively on policy reforms in agricultural trade, textiles and
clothing, and non-agricultural trade generally. Mr. Martin has a
particular interest in using detailed data on trade barriers to
build up a complete picture of the effects of trade barriers on
trade and welfare. Mr. Martin has published widely in journals, and
several books, including recent studies of global trade reform and
of China?s accession to the WTO.
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